Some bad news this time: the electric car subsidy announced in 2008 has been dwarfed by the budget cuts. It will still be £5000 off when you buy a new electric car but the number of available subsidies has been cut from proposed 46,000 to meagre 8600.
It is believed that allegedly a huge role in this decision has been played by the lobbyists of the established car makers and possibly the oil companies. There are many people who want to keep the electric cars within a very limited market.
This comes …
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A specially built single-seater electric car Buckeye Bullet 2 just broke the land speed record for an electric car. It tipped the dial at 515 km/h although the average figure was 495 km/h.
The new speed record was established on the Bonneville salt lake, Utah, USA.
Just a year ago, the Bullet’s 1st edition took a
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Worldwide fuel powerty and sustainability issues have created a fertile soil for all sorts of crazy inventions to develop. There’s one of them: the HumanCar. It is a plug-in hybrid powered by a basic electric motor or… well, human power. This four-seater can be powered by passengers pushing a lever. It works just like the good old railway draisine handcar.
It is possible to exercise-power the car on your own, but whenever you feel tired, you can start the electric motor to gain assistance.
The inventor is taking backorders for the 2011 …
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Not exactly electric car news but too exciting to skip. Bristol has become the centre of compressed natural gas vehicle development. Sh*te-powered VW Beetle lovingly named Bio-Bug has started a test run around Bristol streets.
The car runs on methane that is generated from household waste and sewage. Just 70 households are enough to
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The Parisian authorities have devised a plan to launch a 3000-fleet of electric cars for public sharing. The program, codenamed AutoLib, will replicate the VeLib program that allows the Frenchmen to share electric bikes.
The idea as such is a good one - you book the car when you need it, leave it at a specially designed lot and forget about it. No worrying about insurance, parking and
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A consortium of more than fifty local businesses across the East have devised a £5+ million project called EValue8. It involves installing 600 charging points for electric cars.
Their project has been short-listed by the “Pluggedin Places”, a project by the Office of Low Emission Vehicles. Short-listed, however, doesn’t mean granted - they still got a
